Moving into an apartment means I no longer have a garden, but lucky me, the city has planted a shade garden just outside the back door. Shade gardens aren’t as breath-taking as ones basking in the sunshine, but if you … Continue reading Walk 50 Steps or Less and Take a Photo
Nature has a thing for pink and green in the plant world… Dieffenbachia in Puerto Vallarta with pink and green markings. Pink waterlilies in a pond at Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden, Mexico. Soft green Bromeliad with pink thorns and markings. … Continue reading Pink and Green in the Plant World
This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Bokeh, is run by Sofia Alves of PHOTOGRAPHIAS. To quote Sofia: The term Bokeh was first used to distinguish normal motion blur from the blur obtained when things are out of focus. It literally means … Continue reading Bokeh, Dancing Circles of Light
Even before Christmas was invented, the evergreen Holly with its bright red berries was one of the primary plants used in winter celebrations in Europe. Thus red and green, the traditional colours of winter, became associated with Christmas. Gold and … Continue reading The Colours of Christmas: Red & Green
Fleurs de Villes is a series of floral displays in various cities around the world. In Downtown Vancouver, June 11-20, 2021, a display called Rosé was set up in support of breast cancer research took place. The signature image for ‘Fleurs de … Continue reading Fleurs de Villes: Rosé, a Tour with Rose-Coloured Glasses
Still playing with photo apps but it appears that some of my favourites are not being supported any longer, and others are expected to stop soon. White water lily in Holland run through the photo app Distressed FX. Ireland with the … Continue reading White Flowers in Photo Apps 2
Since I’m into doing diptychs and triptychs I thought I try out a few featuring the colour of April. In March the colours are fairly consistent, lemon yellow, spring green, various shades of pink and white against a dark sky … Continue reading The Colour of April
This has been an unusually warm winter, thanks to climate change. The flowers are very confused. Here are some blooming in January in Vancouver, which is in Canada. One of the warmest cities in Canada, but still – the only flowers … Continue reading Confused Flowers: Plants of the Month for January 2021
Man-made Stripes. Red striped bathing huts at Knokke-Heist on the Belgian Coast. Striped painting in a gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. Matching one’s blue striped outfit to a blue striped mural on Granville Island, Vancouver. Natural Stripes. Small scrub struggling to grow … Continue reading Stripes & Checks: Man-Made and Natural
Cee has been keeping me busy looking for leaves and flowers with surface patterns on them, and I’ve discovered that the patterns come in several variations. Veining. Sometimes the veining only shows up in the fall when the leaves change … Continue reading Patterns in Leaves and Flowers
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